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May 29, 2026
World Science Festival
Theoretical physicist Leonard Susskind joins Brian Greene for a conversation on black holes, the nature of reality, and what it means to spend a…
- Faculty
May 12, 2026
No Reason to Get Excited Podcast Series
In this episode of No Reason to Get Excited, Dr. Aaron Winkler talks with Peter Graham about the strange and fascinating world of modern physics.
- Faculty
March 30, 2026
Quanta Magazine
This article explains how physicists try to make sense of how the quantum world works in our expanding universe.
- Faculty
January 27, 2026
Q-FARM Stanford YouTube Channel
The panel, part of a workshop bringing together experimentalists and theorists at the intersection of AMO physics and quantum gravity, featured LITP…
- Faculty
January 14, 2026
Quanta Magazine
For the first time, physicists have used string theory to describe a universe with dark energy, an advance that grew out of earlier work co-authored…
- Staff
November 19, 2025
Quanta Magazine
Stanford LITP Research Associate Henry Maxfield is featured in Quanta Magazine, in an article on a deep puzzle in quantum cosmology and how adding an…
- Faculty
September 10, 2025
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
In his talk at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Savas Dimopoulos explores the emergence of nimble, small-scale science to tackle the…
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- Faculty
August 18, 2025
Simons Foundation
Surya Ganguli is the Director, and Eva Silverstein is a Principal Investigator of this newly launched collaboration, which will explore the…
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- Faculty
July 17, 2025
Galileo Galilei Medal
The 2025 Galileo Galilei Medal has been awarded to Pierre Sikivie and Leonard Susskind, "for their work representing humanity's persistent…
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- Faculty
April 15, 2025
Stanford Report
The 2025 New Horizons in Physics Prize has been awarded to Jeongwan Haah for the discovery of Haah's code, in which fractal conservation laws emerge…
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- Faculty
January 28, 2025
Infosys Prize
The Infosys Prize 2024 in Physical Sciences is awarded to Professor Vedika Khemani for her groundbreaking contributions to theoretical and…
- Postdocs
September 30, 2024
Quanta Magazine
Karl Schwarzschild first stumbled upon black holes in 1916, but for a long time they weren’t really a thing.